Family Friend Poems

Poem of the Week for: 10/15/2019 - 10/21/2019

Have you ever experienced an everlasting, all-consuming love? A love that engulfs all your thoughts and actions? A love that is unconditional? Famous poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning experienced that and shares of its power with her readers in this poem. It was published in 1850 in the poetry collection Sonnets from the Portuguese. A few years before, in 1846, Elizabeth and Robert Browning eloped. She did not have the support from her father, who was a controlling man. When Elizabeth and Robert eloped, her father disinherited her, and they never spoke again. But she found the love she deserved with Robert Browning. In the two years before they wed, they exchanged love letters, a total of 573. When was the last time you sent a love letter? Maybe this poem will inspire you to write to that special someone in your life and share all the reasons you love them.